Inanimate objects and interdimensional travel

Jun 14, 2019 Last reply: 7 years ago 11 Replies
J

I've had a Saniflo Sanishower tor over three years to pump waste from a garage sink to the main foul water pipe about 120cm above it. It has worked perfectly. during that time.



It is in a double-cupboard under the sink, which I guess was the previous owner's kitchen reject when a new kitchen was installed years ago. This morning I noticed a smell in the cupboard - that slightly sewer-like smell of standing wastewater. I checked the pump inlet and outlet, and the area around the pump, but there was no water to be seen. It was then I noticed that a cap on top of the pump body (probably covering an air-bleed to the pressure switch) was missing. That cap is white plastic, about 4 cm in diameter, and a cm or so deep in the centre where it fits into a hole on the top of the pump. I've taken everything out of that cupboard and looked around it, but that bloody cap is nowhere to be seen! There is no way it could have broken and fallen into the pump body. So where is it? In a parallel universe?



Anyway, I contacted Saniflo and a new cap is on its way. Their support was excellent.


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C

Yep. Happens quite a lot. And especially to me.

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N

Same place as all the biros and odd socks.

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B

Have you had anyone cleaning in the place recently? The common solutions are the right ones. Its been found and binned as probably belonging to some bottle no longer used since most people will not have seen the item away from its normal place. Chances are it went brittle and was broken which was why it fell out. Brian

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S

Usually screwdrivers for me. Sit on the floor and remove an accessory from a back-box; disconnect cabling; open packaging of replacement accessory; look for scrwedriver that I have just been using and it has moved to the far side of the room. I am sure that I have remained seated at the same location throughout, so how has it moved?

SteveW

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T

You're lucky it's only moved that far.

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A

There is no way it could have broken

There is a theory somewhere that if all the biros and socks lost were simultaneously found and stacked, humans would have to migrate and live on another planet.

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T

Very strong dinmensional warp around the houses of parlieament at the moment

Unicorns, and rainbows all over teh place. //

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J

Come on Brian! This is the garage we are talking about - known in many circles as the "Man Cave". Cleaning? If that's what I think it means, then no. No cleaning. And I'd looked in the cupboard for something else a couple of days previously, and there was no smell, so the loss of the cap was very recent. It'll probably turn up miles away some time in 2029 if the worm hole reappears.

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C

Somewhere closer than we imagine, in a parallel universe, a person just like you heard a noise behind him. He looked around and saw your cap spinning across the floor. It came to rest. He picked it up. Where had it come from? Out of thin air?? Surely this was impossible; a complete mystery!

It's called an apport.

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B

Ask the wife. She'll walk in and it will re-materialise immediately.

I have a theory about dropping things and old age. The older one gets the farther away they will migrate. Teenager drops something, its at his feet. I drop something and it will dispppear under a piece of furniture the far end of the room

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